Angel City FC partners with California women’s prison for soccer rehabilitation program

A new program using soccer to teach leadership and life skills has launched at the California Institution for Women, aiming ...

California lawmakers want reform for women in prison facing ‘double punishment’

Female legislators proposed a slate of bills aimed at prison reform, including offering survivors of sexual violence alternatives to incarceration.
Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Jury deadlocks again in trial of officer charged with sexually abusing inmates at Dublin federal prison

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A federal jury has deadlocked for the second time in a trial of a former correctional officer charged with sexually abusing four inmates at a now-closed federal women’s prison ...
The Atlantic

California Prisons Were Illegally Sterilizing Female Inmates

Over the course of several years, two women's prisons in California signed at least 150 pregnant women up for permanent sterilization to be performed after they gave birth, without following the ...
East Bay Times

Pregnant prison guards say California forces them to choose: Their jobs or their babies

She believes she wouldn’t have lost the baby had the California Department of ... accommodations the federal Bureau of Prisons and other state and local law enforcement agencies routinely provide ...
StamfordAdvocate

Jury deadlocks again in trial of officer charged with sexually abusing inmates at California prison

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A federal jury has deadlocked for the second time in a trial of a former correctional officer charged with sexually abusing four inmates at a now-closed federal women’s prison ...